Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 03, 2022

Ha.

Personally, I like them both.

She wins the Darwin Lack of Sophistication Award!

What would Reginald Kenneth Dwight think of that?

Lucy, you once said it yourself. One rarely gets a chance to see such carefully prepared sarcasm!

I understand that Beethoven couldn’t sing his way out of a paper bag.

I went to see Elton a couple of years ago. I don’t remember Beethoven holding a concert for as long as I’ve lived.

1 Liberace sued a British tabloid for millions of dollars in October of 1957 for libel. 2 Eight months later in June of 1958 11 year old Reginald Dwight is awarded a music scholarship to the London Academy of Music. 3 Eight months is 2/3rds of a year, and we all know what the decimal version of 2/3rds is, don’t we. That’s right! .666 years after Liberace sued Elton John is born. This guy never had to worry for one minute about every being a success. He’s just a worthless good for nothing phoney.

And on that note, Lucy switched from being a sharp note to a flat note.

Elton John himself has said that his music is influenced by Beethoven, among others, and implied that Beethoven was better (he “wrote the greatest melodies and the most beautiful things of all time.”)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2478068/Elton-John-says-modern-singers-processed-performers-lack-humanity.html

Each era has its geniuses, wrapped in the packaging appropriate to that age.

Was Elton John ever on bubble-gum cards?

That’s SIR Elton John, to you.

Despite that, Sir Elton Hercules John has done alright for himself. What must be the World’s most awesome lakefront mansion near Port Dover, on Lake Erie, is rumored to be his.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7729664,-80.2382464,794m/data=1e3

I think people tend to forget or not realize that classical musicans were the Pop/Rock stars of their day. It all equals out in the end, well most of the time.

“I’d like to thank the little people…”

What makes Schroeder think that Beethoven is better than Elton is that Beethoven’s songs are public and historical domain, while you have to pay copyright fees to play Elton’s songs.

awesome sarcastic comment. what’s next, April fools?

Normally I’d say a pop culture reference dates a timeless comic strip, but this could have been done anytime in the last fifty years (well, thirty years technically).

I bought an Elton John 45 at the thrift the other day

This beats the Sunday set up where Linus awarded Lucy a certificate for setting a new record in most consecutive days being crabby. I am certain Lucy was perplexed by how sarcastic they both were.

I LOVE the title panel today.

The Booby Prize.

“Play us a song you’re the piano man!”

I guess THAT’S why they call it the blues.

I wonder for how long did he had that trophy waiting just for a moment like that.

What’s a matter, Schroeder? You’ve never heard “Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road”?

If you win another award, for another stupid question, Lucy, you will get more movie tickets!

What makes Beethoven better than Elton John? Ask me again when Elton John’s songs are still popular after 200 years.

Poor Sir Elton

That’s the way I feel about a lot of the comments I read here at GoComics. My funniest example is the guy who swore at everybody that global warming was a myth.

Great sarcasm Schroeder; you deserve a prize yourself!

That had me laugh out loud!

Plus Elton John will get his own museum when he dies

How many Gold Albums did Beethoven have.

I’m surprised it’s her first trophy.

Go with the feeling, Lucy.

Schroeder milking it harder than a…well, farmer, I guess

Beethoven probably would have rocked it if he was born in this era.

How is this not a meme template yet?

Schroder actually smiles in a couple of these, which is rare when he’s around Ms. Lucy…

Hey! You just got slightly smarter, Lucy.

I can think of some tunes that would have been contemporary still in 1975 that Schroder would have tolerated. Elton John songs, unfortunately, are not among them. At least not the one’s I’m famalir with by him.

One thing Elton John and Beethoven had in common — they both had someone else write their lyrics.

I have a feeling Schroeder wanted to give that trophy to Lucy for a looong time

Well that’s quite the overreaction. He just happened to have all that stuff waiting for a moment like this?

Just slap him.

Good for you Shroeder.

If you play the tune at the top backwards you can hear John Lennon

Tough one. ‘Moonlight Sonata’ on the one hand but ’Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding on the other.

ZING!

Did Beethoven ever write THE LION KING?WEll,did he?!?!?

I don’t remember this oldie,a rare time when Schroeder took that serious expression off his face and jollied it up.

Wait are these reruns?

Comedy Gold, Schroeder. It’s always handy to have a trophy and two spare movie tickets handy in the event Lucy asks an annoying question, which is pretty much every time she lounges on your piano as you practice away. Why the heck do you keep letting her in the house anyway?

Schroeder, don’t go breakin’ her heart!